Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
From Windows 3.1 through XP I have been able to choose all the colors I must
look at while working in Word all day long. I like warm gray border elements and maybe very low saturation blue-green title bars. Now I have to look at that baby blue color scheme for the rest of my life and think of baby puke as I write? Yes, color IS subjective, dontchaknow. Really, the philosophy behind decreasing the scope of user choice and imposing a single color scheme on everyone smacks of arrogance out of control and beyond belief! Yes, I turned off Aero and went back to Classic. (And I sort of liked Aero, despite its low-visibility titles problem) Classic works for Notepad, IE, etc. It makes no difference on others: Word will be blue, and so will Windows Live Mail (a different blue -- go figure), and who knows what else. No more blue screen of death, just life imprisonment, eh? Or maybe, I'm just missing that magic control panel that allows you to make things just the way you like them? I'm about ready to downgrade to XP, I think. This is getting frustrating... |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
What you see is what you get.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org RBlan wrote: From Windows 3.1 through XP I have been able to choose all the colors I must look at while working in Word all day long. I like warm gray border elements and maybe very low saturation blue-green title bars. Now I have to look at that baby blue color scheme for the rest of my life and think of baby puke as I write? Yes, color IS subjective, dontchaknow. Really, the philosophy behind decreasing the scope of user choice and imposing a single color scheme on everyone smacks of arrogance out of control and beyond belief! Yes, I turned off Aero and went back to Classic. (And I sort of liked Aero, despite its low-visibility titles problem) Classic works for Notepad, IE, etc. It makes no difference on others: Word will be blue, and so will Windows Live Mail (a different blue -- go figure), and who knows what else. No more blue screen of death, just life imprisonment, eh? Or maybe, I'm just missing that magic control panel that allows you to make things just the way you like them? I'm about ready to downgrade to XP, I think. This is getting frustrating... |
#3
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
Hi R.,
At present activating the Accessibility display features in the control panel and setting up a theme/color scheme from that list, is pretty much the only way to override the 3 built in color schemes in Office 2007 Blue - Windows XP default color set Black - Windows Vista default color set Silver/grey - Plain rather than gradient background - can make recording onscreen tutorial or capturing screen shots for printed documents clearer. There are some side effects from using the Accessibility settings as many of the 'graphic effects' in the display are removed. FWIW, a large number of business users never get to see anything at work other than the default color set, day after day, that is setup in Windows ============== "RBlan" wrote in message ... From Windows 3.1 through XP I have been able to choose all the colors I must look at while working in Word all day long. I like warm gray border elements and maybe very low saturation blue-green title bars. Now I have to look at that baby blue color scheme for the rest of my life and think of baby puke as I write? Yes, color IS subjective, dontchaknow. Really, the philosophy behind decreasing the scope of user choice and imposing a single color scheme on everyone smacks of arrogance out of control and beyond belief! Yes, I turned off Aero and went back to Classic. (And I sort of liked Aero, despite its low-visibility titles problem) Classic works for Notepad, IE, etc. It makes no difference on others: Word will be blue, and so will Windows Live Mail (a different blue -- go figure), and who knows what else. No more blue screen of death, just life imprisonment, eh? Or maybe, I'm just missing that magic control panel that allows you to make things just the way you like them? I'm about ready to downgrade to XP, I think. This is getting frustrating... -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
#4
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
"Graham Mayor" wrote: What you see is what you get.
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: At present activating the Accessibility display features in the control panel and setting up a theme/color scheme from that list, is pretty much the only way to override the 3 built in color schemes in Office 2007 I would like to see that Accessibility Silver/Gray theme. Either I don't have that on My Vista Ultimate 64 bit computer or it's something else I found. After reaching Control Panel the closest item is "Ease of Access Center" which offers only "High Contrast". There is also a "Make the computer easier to see / Optimize visual display" option. That offers a "Choose a High Contrast color scheme" link. This takes you to Appearance Settings which offers you the following color schemes: Windows Aero, Windows Vista Basic, Windows Standard, Windows Classic... You can pick your colors in any of those, but it will have no effect on Word 2007 or Windows Live Mail, and who knows what else. Appearance Settings also offers High Contrast White, High Contrast Black, High Contrast #2, and High Contrast #1. You can click on any of those to see their default color schemes, perhaps useful to some. The closest thing I saw to a Silver/Gray theme was the first item, High Contrast White. Stark, to say the least. It will change the Border and Menu colors on Word 2007, however, unlike the first four. Now here's the weird thing: If you click on the "Advanced" button for High Contrast White (and I assume the other High Contrast choices but I didn't get that far), you get the Advanced Appearances dialog that allows you to change all the traditional appearance parameters. In fact, I just checked, you get the same 'High Contrast" options and the ability to modify them directly from the Control Panel - Personalization - Window Color and Appearance. (The actual paths have different names depending on whether you use the Vista or Classic view, just to keep things simple.) There is a warning that says "Colors and sizes selected here only apply if you have selected a Windows Classic color scheme. If any other scheme is applied, these colors and sizes might not appear." Yeah, especially in Word 97, right? Guess what folks? If you are willing to go to the classic windows look, you can have Word 97 (and all your other windows) in any color you want. Just Pick those colors inside a "High Contrast" Advanced dialog, they can be low contrast or whatever you like. One exception is the blue "New-Reply-Reply All- etc, menu strip on Windows Live Mail, which seems to be some kind of graphic superimposed on the rest of the window. But Word looks good if you play with it a little -- be sure to use the drop-down menu of items that can be manipulated, you can't reach most of them by clicking on the graphics. I adjusted my Desktop icon size and separation while I was at it. Unfortunately you can't save multiple schemes as you could on earlier Windows, but that's true of any of Vista's schemes -- Choice is bad -- MS knows best, right? Please don't tell MS about this workaround for getting your own color scheme in Word 97. They might repair that bug in their next update. --RB |
#5
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
"RBlan" wrote: Unfortunately you can't save multiple schemes as you could on earlier Windows, but that's true of any of Vista's schemes -- Choice is bad -- MS knows best, right? Correction: You can save your new scheme and then play with others. You Just can't save it from the same dialog where you created it. Make your scheme, click OK, and then go back to "Personalize" and select "Theme". You can give your new scheme a name and save it from this new dialog. I guess choice is not _always_ bad. -RB |
#6
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Control
You misunderstood Bob. The color scheme choice is for Office 2007, not
Vista. In Word, click the Office button, then Word Options. Under Popular, there is a dropdown list for "Color scheme" that offers Blue, Black, and Silver. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RBlan" wrote in message ... "Graham Mayor" wrote: What you see is what you get. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: At present activating the Accessibility display features in the control panel and setting up a theme/color scheme from that list, is pretty much the only way to override the 3 built in color schemes in Office 2007 I would like to see that Accessibility Silver/Gray theme. Either I don't have that on My Vista Ultimate 64 bit computer or it's something else I found. After reaching Control Panel the closest item is "Ease of Access Center" which offers only "High Contrast". There is also a "Make the computer easier to see / Optimize visual display" option. That offers a "Choose a High Contrast color scheme" link. This takes you to Appearance Settings which offers you the following color schemes: Windows Aero, Windows Vista Basic, Windows Standard, Windows Classic... You can pick your colors in any of those, but it will have no effect on Word 2007 or Windows Live Mail, and who knows what else. Appearance Settings also offers High Contrast White, High Contrast Black, High Contrast #2, and High Contrast #1. You can click on any of those to see their default color schemes, perhaps useful to some. The closest thing I saw to a Silver/Gray theme was the first item, High Contrast White. Stark, to say the least. It will change the Border and Menu colors on Word 2007, however, unlike the first four. Now here's the weird thing: If you click on the "Advanced" button for High Contrast White (and I assume the other High Contrast choices but I didn't get that far), you get the Advanced Appearances dialog that allows you to change all the traditional appearance parameters. In fact, I just checked, you get the same 'High Contrast" options and the ability to modify them directly from the Control Panel - Personalization - Window Color and Appearance. (The actual paths have different names depending on whether you use the Vista or Classic view, just to keep things simple.) There is a warning that says "Colors and sizes selected here only apply if you have selected a Windows Classic color scheme. If any other scheme is applied, these colors and sizes might not appear." Yeah, especially in Word 97, right? Guess what folks? If you are willing to go to the classic windows look, you can have Word 97 (and all your other windows) in any color you want. Just Pick those colors inside a "High Contrast" Advanced dialog, they can be low contrast or whatever you like. One exception is the blue "New-Reply-Reply All- etc, menu strip on Windows Live Mail, which seems to be some kind of graphic superimposed on the rest of the window. But Word looks good if you play with it a little -- be sure to use the drop-down menu of items that can be manipulated, you can't reach most of them by clicking on the graphics. I adjusted my Desktop icon size and separation while I was at it. Unfortunately you can't save multiple schemes as you could on earlier Windows, but that's true of any of Vista's schemes -- Choice is bad -- MS knows best, right? Please don't tell MS about this workaround for getting your own color scheme in Word 97. They might repair that bug in their next update. --RB |
#7
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Say it Ain't So - Word 2007/Vista have taken away my Color Con
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You misunderstood Bob. The color scheme choice is for Office 2007, not Vista. In Word, click the Office button, then Word Options. Under Popular, there is a dropdown list for "Color scheme" that offers Blue, Black, and Silver. Okay that was not hard to find, since you put it that way. I guess what I discovered was what Bob was trying to describe in the first place. Thanks. By the way, the 'Silver" Aero theme in Word 2007 does not irritate me, so I'll probably use it sometimes. I saved it with my warm gray border theme as one of my Aero themes along with my warm gray "accessibility" classic windows theme. Thanks. -RB |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
word 2007 and Vista | New Users | |||
Vista Word 2007 | Microsoft Word Help | |||
widow control in Word 2007 | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Comment balloon color in Vista? | Microsoft Word Help | |||
control over bold and color | Page Layout |